Handle data in form submission

[Valentina]

Hi everyone,

I am new in the Jenkins world, I started to use Jenkins from this April and I am developing a new plugin.

However, I am having some problems to understand how the jenkins environment works exactly. 

The main idea is to create a Jenkins plugin which can show the content of a JSON file produced from the build of a freestyle project into a table format. Each row of the table should also contains additional checkboxes and text areas such that a user can add additional information.

Currently, I was able to realize the table with the JSON content and add the checkboxes and textareas (using SimpleBuilderStep and RunAction2 classes), but I do not know how to handle the data when I click on the submit button. 

I would like to use the checkboxes values and text areas in order to perform other operations, such as create a new file in the workspace or send information to another endpoint like elasticsearch.

Do you know any possible solution? 

Thank you in advance,

Best regards.

Valentina

[Jesse Glick]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 7:40 AM Valentina <odorizzi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> […] I do not know how to handle the data when I click on the submit button.

>
> I would like to use the checkboxes values and text areas in order to perform other operations, such as create a new file in the workspace or send information to another endpoint like elasticsearch.

This does not sound like a standard Jenkins configuration form, so the
usual links about “structured form submission” and typical controls
like `f:textbox` are probably irrelevant. If you have managed to
render an HTML form with the desired contents, you can just set the
submission `action` to be a web method in your action

HttpResponse doSubmit(StaplerRequest req)

and write the body like any servlet handler.

[Valentina]

Thank you very much for your suggestion. 

I solved using Javascript method in order to call a method in my action class. 

Best regards.

Valentina